A day later and they still say “apparently”?

Terrorist attack on a London street

A British soldier has been butchered on a busy London street by two Islamist terrorists, one of whom proclaimed afterwards: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”

The story describes one of the two as “speaking in a London accent” and “likely a convert.”

BBC says at least one is a convert.

Woolwich murder: The suspected attackers

But it all seems remarkably tentative, still.

Al-Jazeera has a somewhat different take.

UK: Soldier's murder may be terror-related

They lead with this remark.

Prime Minister Cameron condemns attack in London in which soldier was hacked to death and says Islam must not be blamed.

He’s right in that, so far as one can tell from the bloody-handed one’s remarks in the on-scene video, this was about Muslim identity and Islam as a religion had no more to do with it than Catholicism or Protestantism, as religions, had anything to do with the so-called “Troubles” of Northern Ireland some decades ago.

But that really doesn’t matter all that much, does it?

If you’re a Londonderry Protestant and the Catholics side with, support, aid, and staff the IRA killers out to get you, are those Catholics less your enemy, are they less a threat because the pope and the bishops condemn the violence and publicly excommunicate IRA terrorists instead of egging them on?

So, sure, Islam, the religion, is not to blame for this.

This did not happen because the Koran is the most blood-curdling incitement to violence of the sacred texts of all the world’s major religions, nor because it is globally the most powerful and dangerous teaching document for Jew hating.

Truly, the Koran is that.

But all the same that isn’t why these events happened any more than it’s why the bombings in Boston happened.

And yet the Muslims are to blame, in the same sense as the Catholics and Protestants of Ulster were to blame for the years and years of public chaos, terrorism, and slaughter there.

Want to spare your country this sort of sectarian violence?

Don’t allow the sectaries to settle there.

Close the door to Muslim immigration until the Muslims stop hating you, or at least give up their propensities for political savagery.

Deport as many as you can.

You will still have murders and perhaps even terrorism.

But not this.

Not Muslim terrorism.